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Take your Instagram hexes and throw them in the TRASH! Just kidding, Instagram, we still love you. But why mess with pixel fakery when you could make rad tilt-shift photos with a rad tilt-shift camera? That’s right: dedicated hardware distortion. Photojojo’s Tilt-Shift Camera has a built-in angled lens to create that awesome miniature toy elf…
Your ISP probably sucks. You don’t need the FCC to tell you that. But a recent study conducted on behalf of the FCC reveals just how badly some of them suck. And the best ISP in America? Verizon FiOS. The SamKnows study found that not only is FiOS meeting its speed claims, they’re exceeding them…
There isn’t a pressing need for new map apps, since Google and Bing do such a good job of showing you everything around you and where you’re going. But National Geographic’s Trail Maps has you covered for camping trips where you’re going to be away from a strong network connection for a while. What’s it…
The sub-atomic world is about to get blown wide open. This new, uber-high speed X-ray camera may allow researchers to actually observe the basic structures and behaviors of matter. The £3 million prototype camera, currently under development by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, will be used in conjunction with the billion-euro European XFEL…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: an Indian farmer goes to the hospital and says “Doc, I’ve got this horrible pain in my stomach.” And then the doctors operate and find “a female uterus, ovaries, Fallopian tubes, a cervix and underdeveloped vaginal tissue.” No? Yeah, I hadn’t neither. The father of two, identified only…
Some of the ridiculous Yelp reviews featured on Fuck You Yelper may be well-crafted fake stupidity. But I guarantee you the real Yelp has reviews that are just as bad, if not worse. Right now, the Foursquare tips are probably your best bet for decent advice on a wide scale, but I’m sure it won’t…
Push Pop Press, an e-publishing startup founded by ex-Apple engineers Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, has announced its acquisition by Facebook. Push Pop published one multimedia book for the iPad, Al Gore’s Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. At that time, Push Pop, as Wired.com’s Brian Chen wrote, sought to create a…
Am out camping, and was taking pictures of the night sky, originally thought of this one as ruined by the fireflies, but then I thought of this contest. It’s hard to see but the bank on the opposite side of the lake is covered in tens of thousands of them, and a few landed on…
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to photograph fireflies. But, in what I suspect was an issue with regional differences and a generally difficult challenge, we only received five submissions! All the same, our winner is suburban-surreal. Winner – Backyard Lights I arrived late to a party where a few photographer friends were…
Jesus loves everyone. He loves innocents, he loves sinners, he loves cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels. And according to the United States Air Force, Jesus loves atomic intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear mass-murdering too. That’s basically what they have been telling their nuclear missile officers for decades under a special ethics training program…
Jesus is going to wax his balls and everything else if the iPhone 5 doesn’t look like this: Just 7mm thick, with smoothed curves like the iPhone 3GS. Here’s a closer look at that fake iPhone 5, now on video. While this “iPhone 5” is very clearly a fake, the question is, “Is this a…
You have to love the 60’s. The conflict. The culture. The Jetsons. That what I think of when I see these. iHome’s new SD63 Retro-Style headphones hold to the spirit of the time while grasping at a future that is now. I mean, don’t you think Elroy would wear something like these? iHome wanted to…
Good call on deciding to stop smoking but, fair warning, the next few weeks are going to suck mad donkey balls. These seven smoking cessation devices will help make breaking the habit a bit more tolerable. Filtrim Smoking a cigarette with a tear in the paper is nearly impossible—you get no draw. The Filtrim device…
Wow, people will slap a GoPro onto just about anything these days—Hula hoops, combat helmets, even seagulls. Now, photographer Josh Maready is taking us for ride through the streets of NYC via the underside of his skate deck. But don’t think that this was smooth street surfing. Maredy destroyed two, count em, two GoPro sets…
There’s no doubt that the iPhone 5 is coming soon-ish, so The Guardian’s report that it’s being field tested by upper brass make sense. That means they could be out there beside you now—but you’ll have no idea. Even if you’re one of the elite few Apple and carrier execs who gets to open this…
When I was your age, people wrote down our ideas on a piece of paper. Or better yet, THEY REMEMBERED THEM IN THEIR HEADS. But now, in these ruinous times, everyone has some electronic whirlydoodle to log their insignificant thoughts in. Lenovo thinks we need a whole computer to do that, so they named it…
Magazines rock, but most of them are doing about as well financially as a drunk at a Vegas craps table. Which is indirectly leading to interesting new digital media experiments like (*ahem*) Longshot magazine and tons of tablet publications. The newest to enter the fray is an iPad app called Aol Editions. It launches tomorrow.…
After Microsoft’s database of publicly-accessible Wi-Fi locations was exposed, they’ve heeded the criticisms and decided to make the information a bit less accessible. According to Cnet’s Declan McCullagh, Microsoft tweaked the Live.com location services API so that it no longer allows someone to enter in a MAC address and receive a precise geographical location. Furthermore,…
So you’re tired of getting to work each day and having to launch all your apps and websites and arrange everything just so. What if your computer could do it for you. Guess what? It can! Here’s how. Arrange Your Desktop Assuming you already have an idea of the apps you want to use, launch…
Five years ago, Israel fired over 600 of these top secret missiles at Hezbollah fighters during its war against Lebanon. The weapon’s remained a mystery—until now. Meet Tamuz, Jerusalem’s APC-launched, camera-guided, person-hunting aerial killer. The notion of a “safe” or “smart” weapon is almost always a misguided one at best—at worst, one that whitewashes the…
